Bowdlerize
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Re: BOWDLERIZE
Luke: Dump those old movies and get to work. It is about time you started writing your memoirs, is it not?
It is dark at night, but the Sun will come up and then we can see.
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Memoirs???
I would not know where to begin.
I know the kids I used to teach way before the Dark Ages,
used to consider me pre-historic. I agreed and told them
I knew for certain the dinosaurs were killed by an
asteroid hitting the planet, because I saw it: I was
hiding in the back of a cave.
I would not know where to begin.
I know the kids I used to teach way before the Dark Ages,
used to consider me pre-historic. I agreed and told them
I knew for certain the dinosaurs were killed by an
asteroid hitting the planet, because I saw it: I was
hiding in the back of a cave.
-----please, draw me a sheep-----
- Slava
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Great comeback and wonderful quip. Definitely deserves a laugh.I knew for certain the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid hitting the planet, because I saw it: I was hiding in the back of a cave.
As to the GWotD itself, does anyone know an anti- of bowdlerize? A word that would mean to make racier or more explicit?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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A phrase, not a word:
spice something up
1. Lit. to make some food or drink more spicy. Judy spiced the cider up by adding cinnamon and nutmeg. she spiced up the chili too much.
2. Fig. to make something more interesting, lively, or sexy. I'm afraid that the nude scenes spiced the musical up too much. some people walked out. Judy liked to spice her lectures up by telling jokes. she spiced up each lecture with a joke. They spiced up the play too much.
(http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/spice+up)
spice something up
1. Lit. to make some food or drink more spicy. Judy spiced the cider up by adding cinnamon and nutmeg. she spiced up the chili too much.
2. Fig. to make something more interesting, lively, or sexy. I'm afraid that the nude scenes spiced the musical up too much. some people walked out. Judy liked to spice her lectures up by telling jokes. she spiced up each lecture with a joke. They spiced up the play too much.
(http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/spice+up)
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- call_copse
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An interesting question. Looking at the thesaurus there are no listed antonyms, but the antonyms for the synonym 'mutilate' are the more mundane 'mend, repair, fix' or for expurgate 'allow, permit'. I can't really go for them, though permit works for the censor aspect of bowdlerize.Great comeback and wonderful quip. Definitely deserves a laugh.I knew for certain the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid hitting the planet, because I saw it: I was hiding in the back of a cave.
As to the GWotD itself, does anyone know an anti- of bowdlerize? A word that would mean to make racier or more explicit?
One word I might posit would be vivify. It's not exactly right in my mind but perhaps close enough for some purposes. You could use debauch for a slightly different sense.
Iain
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Slava, I looked at a bunch of thesauruses and could not find an antonym I felt adequate. There's words like "suitable", "permit" and "okay" but somehow they felt pretty soft. I like a challenge and will keep looking.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I'm going to change myself. -- Rumi
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On the off-chance that this will ever be seen . . .
I once saw an ‘edited-for-television’ opus. This guy receives some
life-shattering news . . . “Gosh darn it!”
I once saw an ‘edited-for-television’ opus. This guy receives some
life-shattering news . . . “Gosh darn it!”
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I once saw an ‘edited-for-television’ opus. This guy receives some
life-shattering news . . . “Gosh darn it!”
When the movie “ Saturday Night Fever” was released, it was an immense box office success. Several months later, the distributor decided to re-release it, but edited to get a lower rating of “PG” in order to attract an even larger audience. The editing included clever dubbing that (sort of) tracked the actors’ lips in the original dialog. Worst example: The boys play a mean trick on one of the girls. One of the boys suddenly jumps off a high bridge, apparently to his death. The horrified girl rushes to look over edge, only to discover there is a wide lower service platform a few feet below the bridge deck, where the boy is safely standing. All the boys laugh at her—obviously this is a trick they have done before. The angry girl swears an expletive at the boy who jumped—but in the PG version the dubbed phrase is is “You faker!”
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